July 2, 1961-April 7, 2009

Bryan Farrow, 47, died snow machining near Caribou Lake. A memorial service is at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 25, 2009, at the Salvation Army Church.

"We will never know exactly how or why he died, despite the tremendous efforts of all the people who searched for him and found him. In the last two years he has been injured and ill, and although we are sad to lose him, he died in the sun, doing something he loved," his family said.

Bryan came to Kodiak with the U.S. Coast Guard and was proud to have served from Sept. 22, 1986, to June 1, 1995. He was a plank holder on USCGC Ironwood, and served on USCGC Roanoke Island and USCGC Chilula. In service Bryan was awarded the Humanitarian Service Medal, National Service Medal and Special Operations Medal, and participated in the Exxon Valdez clean-up.

He was known to many as "Boatyard Bryan" because he launched our boats day and night for years, finally leaving Northern Enterprises to start his own excavating company ITH Ent.

Bryan leaves behind his son Taw Farrow and ex-wife Tammy Barnett in Homer, his mother Sandra Mitchell in Sulfur, Okla., sister Dana Riley on the family ranch in Rio Frio Texas, first wife Patricia Farrow and step-son Lee Thompson in Anchorage and his niece Melody Bice, raised with his sons in Homer.

Bryan's Ashes will be buried with his family in Texas.

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